Random samples

Thickly they spread about, the dolichos creepers, /
On the borders of the He. /
For ever separated from my [...] Cf. Shijing 71

[...] 3. Yuan Sze being made governor of his town by the Master, he gave him nine hundred measures of grain, but Sze [...] Cf. Lunyu 125

Ching / The Well / Water over wood: the image of THE WELL.
Thus the superior man encourages the people at their [...] Cf. Yijing 48

True words are not fine-sounding; / Fine-sounding words are not true. / The good man does not prove by argument; / The [...] Cf. Daodejing 81

I am far from the clouds of Sung Mountain, a long way from trees in Qin; /
And I send to you a message carried by [...] Cf. Tangshi 299

Hence in the wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together. [...] Cf. Sunzi 126

Foreword

In these pages it's possible to read the Analects of Confucius (Lunyu),
The Way and its Power (Daode Jing) attributed to Lao-tse
and some other wisdom or poetry texts in Chinese with English and French translations. Any Chinese characters are linked to dictionaries. Your browser must display Chinese.

Why read Confucius, Lao-tse or the Book of Changes? Well, these Chinese classics have had a major influence on the oldest civilization still in existence on the face of this planet; that should be enough. If not, please consider that China, mostly as a distant mirror where hopes and fears are reflected, has exercised a profound impact on the thinking patterns of Western civilisations, and will. This article in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains things better.

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Harrison Z. Huang, Ph.D student at socrates.berkeley.edu, writes : "Analects on the AFPC website: This excellent site based in France arrays the Chinese text of the Analects alongside English translations by James Legge (1871) and D.C. Lau. (1979), as well as a French translation by Couvreur."

Classical Chinese Literature Websites Database writes : "Contains Shi Jing, Lun Yu, Yi Jing, Dao de jing, Tang shi. Nice introduction and information about each one. Contains traditional chinese characters with immediate English (and French!) translation. Some texts offer multiple translations. REALLY COOL PART: If you put your pointer on a character, a rollover window appears with pinyin pronounciation (complete with tone!) and translation. Clicking on the character opens up a dictionary in a separate window. Although some of the translations are modern, rather than classical, it is still useful (and pretty neato)."

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